From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@hotpop.com>
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To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
       Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] fbdev broken in current bk for PPC
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 09:04:42 +0800
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On Friday 10 September 2004 16:35, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
>
> > > what about failing register_framebuffer for anything but offb ?
> >
> > Humm, indeed hackerish...
> >
> > But the advantage of this is that we can finally exercise the failure
> > path of many frame buffer device drivers in the wild ;-)
>
> Assuming, as I've mentioned in another thread, that info->fix.name ==
> to video=xxxfb.
>

Sorry Geert, I misinterpret.  And you are correct, but that will be scary :-)

Tony


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